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Senior Data Platform Engineer

Job Description

🎯 What You’ll Actually Do

  • Architect and run high-load, production-grade data pipelines where correctness and latency matter.

  • Design systems that survive schema changes, reprocessing, and partial failures.

  • Own data availability, freshness, and trust - not just pipeline success.

  • Make hard calls: accuracy vs cost, speed vs consistency, rebuild vs patch.

  • Build guardrails so downstream consumers (Analysts, Product, Ops) don’t break.

  • Improve observability: monitoring, alerts, data quality checks, SLAs.

  • Partner closely with backend engineers, data analysts, and Product - no handoffs, shared ownership.

  • Debug incidents, own RCA, and make sure the same class of failure doesn’t return.

This is a hands-on IC role with platform-level responsibility.

đź§  What You Bring

  • 5+ years in data or backend engineering on real production systems.

  • Strong experience with columnar analytical databases(ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, similar).

  • Experience with event-driven / streaming systems(Kafka, pub/sub, CDC, etc.).

  • Strong SQL + at least one general-purpose language (Python, Java, Scala).

  • You think in failure modes, not happy paths.

  • You explain why something works - and when it shouldn’t be used.

Bonus: You’ve rebuilt or fixed a data system that failed in production.

đź”§ How We Work

  • Reliability > elegance. Correct data beats clever data.

  • Ownership > tickets. You run what you build.

  • Trade-offs > dogma. Context matters.

  • Direct > polite. We fix problems, not dance around them.

  • One team, one system. No silos.

🔥 What We Offer

  • Fully remote.

  • Unlimited vacation + paid sick leave.

  • Quarterly performance bonuses.

  • Medical insurance for you and your partner.

  • Learning budget (courses, conferences, certifications).

  • High trust, high autonomy.

  • Zero bureaucracy. Real engineering problems.

👉 Apply if you see data platforms as systems to be engineered - not pipelines to babysit.

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